World News // 3 years ago Chun Doo-hwan, ex-South Korean dictator, dies at 90 Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan, a general who seized power in a 1979 military coup and brutally ...

SEOUL - A grandson of former South Korean president Chun Doo-hwan claimed that his grandfather was a “slaughterer” and his family was spending “black money” in a series of videos posted to ...

SEOUL – Mr Chun Woo-won is slated to meet with the bereaved families of those killed in the 1980 Gwangju Uprising on Friday morning, as South Koreans keenly follow the man’s self-proclaimed ...

An anecdote about President Yoon Suk Yeol's sentence of Chun Doo-hwan to "life imprisonment" in a mock trial when he was a law student at Seoul National University is being re-examined.

Chun Woo-won, 27, said military strongman Chun Doo-hwan was a "sinner and slaughterer". The city of Gwangju was the centre of an uprising against martial law, imposed by Chun after he led a coup.